Bolton Sailing Club

I’ve uploaded some photos to the gallery from the 24hr Race. http://www.sail.org.uk/gallery/v/2007/24hr/

Dennis also has some good ones at http://picasaweb.google.com/ShevPix/

You can also still find the photos Richard and I posted live from the event by clicking on the “24 Hour Race” link on the right.

Over the weekend of the 16th/17th September, in support of the fantastic charity ‘Jeans for Genes’, Bolton sailing club assembled a team to compete in the 41st 24hr race. 

As ‘Jeans for Genes’ tirelessly raises funds for research into serious and often life-threatening genetic disorders that affect thousands of children, not least in the UK where one baby in every 33 is born with such a disorder or birth defect, it seemed a small effort for the team to endeavour to race a GP14 sailing dinghy for 24hrs to raise funds to help the pioneering research into developing treatments and bring great hope to many families. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, after a good 11 hour sleep last night I can report that the A team came 1st and the B team came 18th.

Some very good performances by both teams gave us our best combined score ever (so I’m told). From the A team perspective, it was a very tough race as Adam and Chris in the Sail4Cancel boat proved to be very competitive over their entire 24 hour sail (Yes – they sailed for 24 hours non-stop!).

Well done and thanks to both teams and many thanks to those others who helped out over the weekend, including the Shevelans, Geoff Benson, Dave & Pauline Senior (and apologies to others I’ve not mentioned here – my head’s a little fuzzy still).
Special tanks also to Jeans for Genes for their support and Speedsails. Also to Ian Platt and Mike Critchley for the use of their boats.

This week Bolton Sailing Club took delivery of a unique set of sails. Adorned with Jeans for Genes graphics, these sails for the GP14 class, which were donated by Speed Sails, will be used for the Southport 24hr race on September 15th and 16th. Read the rest of this entry »

Still testing

This is just a test post!

Starts 8pm TONIGHT!
Don’t bother eating beforehand as there will also be a special Burton creation available from the galley too!
All proceeds will be going to a very worthy cause so please help us support our adopted charity.